Verizon Hits Milestone in NFV Cloud Deployment
Verizon deployed OpenStack network function virtualization (NFV) in five data centers, the carrier said in a news release Monday. The project started in 2015, and additional deployments are underway in other domestic data center and aggregation sites, Verizon said. The…
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carrier plans to deploy NFV internationally over the next several months, and in edge network sites by year end, it said. Verizon partnered with Big Switch Networks, Dell and Red Hat to develop the OpenStack pod-based design. It went from concept to deployment of more than 50 racks in five production data centers in less than nine months. The NFV project is a step toward building Verizon’s next-generation network, said Adam Koeppe, vice president-network technology planning.